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Heartache Is An Empty Room

by Theo Vandenhoff

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1.
Sick head Eyes in walls Fell victim to the medicine when You wanted too much more Devil's breath Leering eyes Sifting over everything that You wanted from your life Stay awake to the television It's all in your mind Heartache is an empty room They tell you all the time Projected and condescending Held to petty crime Nothing is worth waiting for Oh I hear it all of the time Well it's true For you On television screens Bled out and blue It's hard and crude Yet cuts like any knife You ever knew The walls engage their pulley systems That turn your room to a three wall set The ceiling tiles fall out of place for the Scaffolding above your head You fought so hard to fall asleep To shed the weight off your bleeding hands Then why is it you want so badly Just to be awake again
2.
What's in a name? What's in a name? What's in a name? I've never seen your face before They've told me who you really are I've heard it all and I'm wanting more But then again what's in a name? What's in a name? What's in a name? What's in a name? Drawing pictures in my mind Knowing the gaps will fill in time If I looked you in the eyes It could never be the same What's in a name? What's in a name? What's in a name? These thoughts I have drive me insane Tell me what you know What's in a name? What's in a name? I can tell it's on the tip of your tongue What's in a name? What's in a name? Holding tight To the edge Of time Blinding light Fills my head Right on time
3.
There's a horrible sight outside your window A silent procession moves through the unknown A blanket of fog caressed by the moonlight There's a horrible sound of nothing at all I'm falling into a dream Collapsing inwards And all that I perceive's In my mind My mind My mind My mind Who can tell if you're hurt when you're the only one out there? (Nowhere to run nowhere to go) It's a blackened pit behind the bedroom door (Then where do the noises come from?) A synthesized howl cut's through the drywall (What could it be? oh what could it be?) Piercing, shrill and untoward I'm falling into a dream Collapsing inwards And all that I perceive's My mind My mind My mind Oh it's all in my mind My mind My mind My mind My Well I can see again Now I can see again These bindings I've cut through Now I can see again
4.
Lift 04:30
Looking up As down becomes insignificant My only sense of past Is the one reflected back As I look forward Into the greater wall And I'm Torn wide open To my own Escalation Now the doubt is all around me I can't tell just where I am As through these thoughts I sift In my seat I shift And I lean forward And I lift And I'm Torn wide open To my own Escalation
5.
Undertones 04:43
I could push your shoulders back Another world inside my hands But I agreed to take it slow Try to ignore the undertones Another dream, another night A touch of hands could set it right Think too much about what you said Could put me in that mood again it's true I could read the numbers back The endless patterns in my head Never knowing what to say Go through the motions every day In the lucid sleepless night So many things are brought to light All these thoughts that had been drowned Give life to electronic sound

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Debut EP from the Toronto based synthpop artist. This release catalogues a highly personal journey through uncertainty, paranoia, growth and honest introspection.

Heartache Is An Empty Room, yet sometimes it feels like the whole world is watching.

(C) Theo Vandenhoff
(P) Safe Sounds

safesounds.ca

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released April 2, 2021

Tracks 1, 3 & 5 written and composed by Theo Klaver
Track 2 written and composed by Theo Klaver & Jay Merrow
Track 4 written and composed by Invisible College (Bob Hanley & Eric Klaver) with additional lyrics and composition by Theo Klaver & Jay Merrow

Theo Klaver - vocals, guitar, bass, Moog Sub 37, Roland JX-03, Nord Lead 2x, soft synths and drum programming
Jay Merrow - guitar, tambourine, Moog Sub 37, Roland JX-03, soft synths and drum programming

Produced by Jay Merrow

Mastered by Matt Rideout

Album art by Isabel Glasgow (@hauntedyachtclub)

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Theo Vandenhoff Toronto, Ontario

dark and romantic sophisti-post-punk borne of an urban miasma

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